The origin and early evolution of eukaryotic plastids

Project Information

PLAST-EVOL

Grant agreement ID: 787904

DOI

10.3030/787904

Project closed

EC signature date 7 June 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 30 September 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 986,00

EU contribution

€ 2 499 986,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (37)

Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes

Author(s): Thomas A. Richards, Laura Eme, John M. Archibald, Guy Leonard, Susana M. Coelho, Alex de Mendoza, Christophe Dessimoz, Pavel Dolezal, Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin, Toni Gabaldón, Vladimír Hampl, Geert J. P. L. Kops, Michelle M. Leger, Purificacion Lopez-Garcia, James O. McInerney, David Moreira, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Daniel J. Richter, Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, Alyson E. Santoro, Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, Be
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 22, 2024, Page(s) e3002917, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002917

The Syntrophy hypothesis for the origin of eukaryotes revisited.

Author(s): Purificación López-García; David Moreira
Published in: Nature Microbiology, 2020, ISSN 2058-5276
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-020-0710-4

Planktonic microbial communities from microbialite‐bearing lakes sampled along a salinity‐alkalinity gradient

Author(s): Miguel Iniesto, David Moreira, Karim Benzerara, Guillaume Reboul, Paola Bertolino, Rosaluz Tavera, Purificación López‐García
Published in: Limnology and Oceanography, Issue 67, 2023, Page(s) 2718-2733, ISSN 0024-3590
Publisher: American Society of Limnonogy and Oceanography
DOI: 10.1002/lno.12233

Core microbial communities of lacustrine microbialites sampled along an alkalinity gradient.

Author(s): Miguel Iniesto; David Moreira; Guillaume Reboul; Philippe Deschamps; Karim Benzerara; Paola Bertolino; Aurélien Saghaï; Aurélien Saghaï; Rosaluz Tavera; Purificación López-García
Published in: Environmental Microbiology, 2021, ISSN 1462-2920
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15252

Exploring the prokaryote-eukaryote interplay in microbial mats from an Andean athalassohaline wetland

Author(s): Carolina F. Cubillos, Pablo Aguilar, David Moreira, Paola Bertolino, Miguel Iniesto, Cristina Dorador, Purificación López-García
Published in: Microbiology Spectrum, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2165-0497
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00072-24

High quality genome and transcriptome data for two new species of<i>Mantamonas</i>, a deep-branching eukaryote clade

Author(s): Jazmin Blaz, Luis Javier Galindo, Aaron A. Heiss, Harpreet Kaur, Guifré Torruella, Ashley Yang, L. Alexa Thompson, Alexander Filbert, Sally Warring, Apurva Narechania, Takashi Shiratori, Ken-ichiro Ishida, Joel B. Dacks, Purificación López-García, David Moreira, Eunsoo Kim, Laura Eme
Published in: Scientific Data, 2023, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.20.524885

Reductive evolution and unique predatory mode in the CPR bacterium Vampirococcus lugosii

Author(s): David Moreira, Yvan Zivanovic, Ana I. López-Archilla, Miguel Iniesto, Purificación López-García
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22762-4

A phylogenetic and proteomic reconstruction of eukaryotic chromatin evolution

Author(s): Xavier Grau-Bové, Cristina Navarrete, Cristina Chivas, Thomas Pribasnig, Meritxell Antó, Guifré Torruella, Luis Javier Galindo, Bernd Franz Lang, David Moreira, Purificación López-Garcia, Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, Christa Schleper, Eduard Sabidó, Arnau Sebé-Pedrós
Published in: Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2024, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1101/2021.11.30.470311

Physical connections: prokaryotes parasitizing their kin.

Author(s): Purificación López-García; David Moreira
Published in: Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2021, ISSN 1758-2229
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12910

Biomineralization of Fe- and Mn-rich silicates by cyanobacteria under oxic and alkaline conditions

Author(s): Karim Benzerara, Agnes Elmaleh, Maria Ciobanu, Alexis De Wever, Paola Bertolino, Miguel Iniesto, Didier Jézéquel, Purificación López-García, Nicolas Menguy, Elodie Muller, Fériel Skouri-Panet, Sufal Swaraj, Rosaluz Tavera, Christophe Thomazo, David Moreira
Published in: Biogeosciences, 2025, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/bg-2023-90

Small freshwater ecosystems with dissimilar microbial communities exhibit similar temporal patterns

Author(s): Gwendoline M. David, Purificación López‐García, David Moreira, Benjamin Alric, Philippe Deschamps, Paola Bertolino, Gwendal Restoux, Emma Rochelle‐Newall, Elisa Thébault, Marianne Simon, Ludwig Jardillier
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 30, 2023, Page(s) 2162-2177, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15864

Expanded phylogeny of extremely halophilic archaea shows multiple independent adaptations to hypersaline environments

Author(s): Brittany A. Baker, Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Álvaro Rodríguez del Río, Charley G. P. McCarthy, Purificación López-García, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Edward Susko, Andrew J. Roger, Laura Eme, David Moreira
Published in: Nature Microbiology, Issue 9, 2024, Page(s) 964-975, ISSN 2058-5276
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01647-4

The symbiotic origin of the eukaryotic cell

Author(s): Purificación López-García, David Moreira
Published in: Comptes Rendus. Biologies, Issue 346, 2024, Page(s) 55-73, ISSN 1768-3238
Publisher: Academie des Sciences
DOI: 10.5802/crbiol.118

Phylogenomics of neglected flagellated protists supports a revised eukaryotic tree of life

Author(s): Guifré Torruella, Luis Javier Galindo, David Moreira, Purificación López-García
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 35, 2025, Page(s) 198-207.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.075

Extremely acidic proteomes and metabolic flexibility in bacteria and highly diversified archaea thriving in geothermal chaotropic brines

Author(s): Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Bledina Dede, Brittany A. Baker, Laura Eme, David Moreira, Purificación López-García
Published in: Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 1856-1869, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02505-6

A new member of the dynamin superfamily modulates mitochondrial membrane branching in Trypanosoma brucei

Author(s): Chloé Alexandra Morel, Corinne Asencio, David Moreira, Corinne Blancard, Bénédicte Salin, Etienne Gontier, Stéphane Duvezin-Caubet, Manuel Rojo, Frédéric Bringaud, Emmanuel Tetaud
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 35, 2025, Page(s) 1337-1352.e5, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.02.033

Cultured Asgard Archaea Shed Light on Eukaryogenesis

Author(s): Purificación López-García; David Moreira
Published in: Cell, 2020, ISSN 0092-8674
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.058

Maturases and Group II Introns in the Mitochondrial Genomes of the Deepest Jakobid Branch

Author(s): Luis Javier Galindo, Kristina Prokina, Guifré Torruella, Purificación López-García, David Moreira
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 15, 2023, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad058

Environmental drivers of plankton protist communities along latitudinal and vertical gradients in the oldest and deepest freshwater lake

Author(s): Gwendoline M. David; David Moreira; Guillaume Reboul; Nataliia V. Annenkova; Luis Javier Galindo; Paola Bertolino; Ana I. López-Archilla; Ludwig Jardillier; Purificación López-García
Published in: Environmental Microbiology, 2020, ISSN 1462-2920
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1101/2020.09.26.308536

Description of <i>Gloeomargarita ahousahtiae</i> sp. nov. (Gloeomargaritales), a thermophilic cyanobacterium with intracellular carbonate inclusions

Author(s): Thomas Bacchetta, Purificación López-García, Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Neha Mehta, Feriel Skouri-Panet, Karim Benzerara, Maria Ciobanu, Naoji Yubuki, Rosaluz Tavera, David Moreira
Published in: European Journal of Phycology, Issue 59, 2024, Page(s) 11-20, ISSN 0967-0262
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2023.2216257

Molecular and morphological characterization of four new ancyromonad genera and proposal for an updated taxonomy of the Ancyromonadida

Author(s): Naoji Yubuki, Guifré Torruella, Luis Javier Galindo, Aaron A. Heiss, Maria Cristina Ciobanu, Takashi Shiratori, Ken‐ichiro Ishida, Jazmin Blaz, Eunsoo Kim, David Moreira, Purificación López‐García, Laura Eme
Published in: Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Issue 70, 2023, ISSN 1066-5234
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12997

Ancient Adaptive Lateral Gene Transfers in the Symbiotic Opalina–Blastocystis Stramenopile Lineage

Author(s): Naoji Yubuki, Luis Javier Galindo, Guillaume Reboul, Purificación López-García, Matthew W Brown, Nicolas Pollet, David Moreira
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 37/3, 2019, Page(s) 651-659, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz250

The Ultrastructure of Sanchytrium tribonematis (Sanchytriaceae, Fungi incertae sedis ) Confirms its Close Relationship to Amoeboradix

Author(s): Sergey A. Karpov, Andrey E. Vishnyakov, David Moreira, Purificación López‐García
Published in: Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Issue 66/6, 2019, Page(s) 892-898, ISSN 1066-5234
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12740

Horizontal and endosymbiotic gene transfer in early plastid evolution

Author(s): Rafael I. Ponce‐Toledo, Purificación López‐García, David Moreira
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 224/2, 2019, Page(s) 618-624, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15965

First Molecular Characterization of the Elusive Marine Protist Meteora sporadica

Author(s): Luis Javier Galindo, Purificación López-García, David Moreira
Published in: Protist, Issue 173, 2024, Page(s) 125896, ISSN 1434-4610
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2022.125896

Morphological and molecular characterization of a new member of the phylum Rhodelphidia

Author(s): Kristina I. Prokina, Denis V. Tikhonenkov, Purificación López‐García, David Moreira
Published in: Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Issue 71, 2024, ISSN 1066-5234
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12995

Phylogenomics Supports the Monophyly of Aphelids and Fungi and Identifies New Molecular Synapomorphies

Author(s): Luis Javier Galindo, Guifré Torruella, Purificación López-García, Maria Ciobanu, Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Sergey A Karpov, David Moreira
Published in: Systematic Biology, Issue 72, 2023, Page(s) 505-515, ISSN 1063-5157
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syac054

Refurbishing the marine parasitoid order Pirsoniales with newly (re)described marine and freshwater free‐living predators

Author(s): Kristina I. Prokina, Naoji Yubuki, Denis V. Tikhonenkov, Maria Christina Ciobanu, Purificación López‐García, David Moreira
Published in: Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Issue 71, 2024, ISSN 1066-5234
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.13061

A gene-rich mitochondrion with a unique ancestral protein transport system

Author(s): David Moreira, Jazmin Blaz, Eunsoo Kim, Laura Eme
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 34, 2024, Page(s) 3812-3819.e3, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.017

Rapid formation of mature microbialites in Lake Alchichica, Mexico

Author(s): Iniesto, Miguel; Moreira, David; Benzerara, Karim; Muller, Elodie; Bertolino, Paola; Tavera, Rosaluz; López‐García, Purificación; López-García, Purificación
Published in: Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2021, ISSN 1758-2229
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12957

A new gene family diagnostic for intracellular biomineralization of amorphous Ca-carbonates by cyanobacteria

Author(s): Benzerara Karim, Duprat Elodie, Bitard-Feildel Tristan, Caumes Géraldine, Cassier-Chauvat Corinne, Chauvat Franck, Dezi Manuela, Diop Seydina Issa, Gaschignard Geoffroy, Görgen Sigrid, Gugger Muriel, López-García Purificación, Skouri-Panet Fériel, Moreira David, Callebaut Isabelle
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, 2023, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1101/2021.11.01.465933

Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota

Author(s): Luis Javier Galindo, Purificación López-García, Guifré Torruella, Sergey Karpov, David Moreira
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25308-w

Biomineralization of amorphous Fe-, Mn- and Si-rich mineral phases by cyanobacteria under oxic and alkaline conditions

Author(s): Karim Benzerara, Agnès Elmaleh, Maria Ciobanu, Alexis De Wever, Paola Bertolino, Miguel Iniesto, Didier Jézéquel, Purificación López-García, Nicolas Menguy, Elodie Muller, Fériel Skouri-Panet, Sufal Swaraj, Rosaluz Tavera, Christophe Thomazo, David Moreira
Published in: Biogeosciences, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) 4183-4195, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/bg-20-4183-2023

Marine signature taxa and core microbial community stability along latitudinal and vertical gradients in sediments of the deepest freshwater lake

Author(s): Guillaume Reboul, David Moreira, Nataliia V Annenkova, Paola Bertolino, Konstantin E Vershinin, Purificación López-García
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) 3412-3417, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-01011-y

Metagenome-derived virus-microbe ratios across ecosystems

Author(s): Purificación López-García, Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Mart Krupovic, Maria Ciobanu, Philippe Deschamps, Ludwig Jardillier, Mario López-Pérez, Francisco Rodríguez-Valera, David Moreira
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 17, 2024, Page(s) 1552-1563, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-023-01431-y

Independent Size Expansions and Intron Proliferation in Red Algal Plastid and Mitochondrial Genomes

Author(s): Fabian van Beveren, Laura Eme, Purificación López-García, Maria Ciobanu, David Moreira
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 14, 2022, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evac037

Expanding the molecular and morphological diversity of Apusomonadida, a deep-branching group of gliding bacterivorous protists

Author(s): Guifré Torruella, Luis Javier Galindo, David Moreira, Maria Ciobanu, Aaron A. Heiss, Naoji Yubuki, Eunsoo Kim, Purificación López-García
Published in: Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 2024, ISSN 1066-5234
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1101/2022.11.09.515670